Street-railroad-car advertising device



(No Model.) 2 sheetssheet 1 A. G. MORRISSON.- SIR-DDI RAILROAD GAD ADVERTISING DEVICE.

No. 559,104. l Patented Apr. 28, 1896!.

AN DREW B GRMUIM4 PHUTOLITHUWASHINGTON. D,

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

A. G.. MORRISSON. STREET RAILROAD GAR ADVERTISING DEVIGE.

No. 559,104." PatentedApI'. 28, 1896.

ANDREW EGRAHAM. PHOT-LITMQWSHI NGI'ON4 DE.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE. g

ALBERT C MORRISSON7 OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

STREET-RAILROAD-CAR ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,104, dated April 28, 1896. Application filed September 9,1895. Serial No. 561,916. (lIo model.)

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. MonnrssoN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invent-ed an Improvement in Street-Railroad-Car Advertising Devices; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine.

My invention relates to that class of advertising devices in which an intermittentlymoving drum or reel has secured to its periphery a number of advertising or display cards, which, by its movement, it successively presents for exhibition behind or within a sightaperture.

My invention consists in the novel means of mounting, adjusting, and actuating the card-carrying reel, which I shall hereinafter fully describe.

The obj ect of my invention is to provide an advertising device of this kind especially adapted, by reason of its easy connection with the bell cord, rope, or strap of a car, to be used in a street-railroad car.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section through the case, showing the interior mechanism in end elevation. Fig. 2 is a front view of the working parts, the reel being in section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device.

A is a case having in its front a sight-aperture a.

B is the reel-shaft, mounted transversely in the case, and C is the reel, consisting of ends tted to said shaft.

D are peripheral bars of the reel, extending between the ends and so mounted, as by means of inserted screws at one end, that they can be readily removed for the removal and substitution of the cards.

E are the cards, mounted in frames e of suitable character, which said frames along one edge are hinged or pivoted to the peripheral bars D of the reel. Rising from the inner walls of the case are the guides F, one on each side, and from these extend inwardly the retaining-arms f, which are preferably springs. These arms project over the reel ends and into the path of the cards, their inner ends overlapping the card-frames near their bases, and thus serving to retard the fall of each card long` enough to expose one side while the other side of the previously-fallen card is likewise exposed; but upon the further movement of the reel the retarded card is forced past the retaining-arms, (which, being springy, yield outwardly,) and it drops down to expose its other side.

The reel C has imparted to it the necessary I intermittent movement by means of a bail G,

the sides of which are freely mounted or pivoted upon the shaft B. These sides carry ypawls g, which mesh with ratchetsb upon the y shaft B in such a manner that when the bail the reel-shaft B a ratchet II, with which a retaining-pawl h engages.

The amount of movement of the actuatingbail G is determined and controlled as follows The sides of the bail extend downwardly past the shaft D and into the lower portion of the case A, where they are joined by a cross-bar g'. Springs I are attached to this cross-bar and to the case and serve to return the bail after it has been operated. The lower cross-bar of the bail operates between stops J and J in the lower portion of the case A. One or both of these stops may be adjustable, and in this case I have shown the stop J as being in the form of a nut movable with a screw K, the end of which projects to the front of the case, and by the operation of which the stop J may be moved back and forth to vary its distance from the fixed stop J, so that the limits between which the lower cross-bar of the bail may vibrate may be va- -ried and the amount of movement of the bail determined, whereby it may cause the reel to advance one or more teeth, as may be desired. The bail may be further guided in its movement by having its sides provided with sockets g2, playing over the guides F, which carry the retaining-arms f. `From the upper cross-bar g3 of the bail may extend a light retainingspring L, passing over the tops of the cards and serving to hold their upper ends temporarily. Any suitable connection may be made with the bail, and in the use to which I in- ICO tend to pnt it-namely, in a railroad-car-it is designed to attach the bell rope, strap, or cord M to the bail, so that every time the bell cord, rope, or strap is pulled a fresh card will be exhibited by the operation of the device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. An advertising device consisting of a case having a sightaperture, a reel mounted within said case and having a series of advertising-cards pivoted to its periphery, and adapted by its movement to be successively exhibited through the sight-aperture of the case, retaining spring-arms projecting from each side and overlapping` the path of the cards, whereby each is temporarily restrained from falling, and a means for moving said reel, consisting of a swinging bail mounted upon the reel-shaft and having pawls, ratchets upon the reel with which said pawls engage, springs Within the lower portion of the case and connected with the bail for controlling it and stops within the lower portion of for varying the distance between said stops whereby the amount of movement of the reel is varied.

2. An advertising device consisting of a case having a sight-aperture, a reel mounted in the case and having advertisin g-cards pivoted to its periphery, guides projecting upwardly within the case and having retaining spring-arms extending into the path of -movement of the cards whereby each is temporarily restrained from falling, a bail guided upon said guides and having means for swinging it, an arm extending from said bail for holding the cards, a pawl-and-ratchet connection between the bail and the reel whereby the latter is actuated, retaining-ratchets on the reel and pawls engaging them and adjustable stops in the lower portion of the case between which the base of the bail operates, whereby it is adjusted as to its movement.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ALBERT C. MORRISSON.

Vitnesses: L

JEssrE C. BRoDrE, S. Il'. NoURsE. 

